Methinks Exun really needs to buck up with regard to its Web D skills. Exunclan.com, if you noticed, is not the most trendy website around.

For this, I think a Session on CSS should be a good thing. Since I don’t know CSS too well, I think we should have a cooperative Session. Here’s what I think we should do. We should get together, and dissect CSS files from Blogger templates like those of ln(exun), etc. Those who are knowledgable in CSS can come up and elucidate us regarding certain aspects.

Those who don’t know CSS at all will be explained the basics and told why CSS is so cool and sexy. Do comment on how you like the idea and possible dates for the Session.

–Karan

We went to Mount St. Mary’s today (!). We won the overall trophy; you can find it in the Web Research Center next to the eSpice trophy. The whole team that went to MSM is invited to come on Monday in the Home Room and deliver the said trophy to Madam Chona.

The results in great detail are:

Web Designing – II^nd Position

Dhruv Kumar

Gursartaj Singh Nijjar

Flash Animation – II^nd Position

Rijul Jain

Vansh Muttreja

Quiz – I^st Position

Bhavya Khanna

Karan Misra

Maanick Nangia

Shrey Khanna

Digital Imaging – I^st Position

Karan Misra (the image(s) sent for the event will be posted below)

Participants who left before the Prize Distribution Ceremony are requested to pick up their trophies and/or certifications from Mr. Mukesh Kumar’s office on Monday, the 18th of October. Nyet, after that I’ll get them sent either to the melting pot or to Lab IV.

Someone from DPS Mathura Rd. team, please post the results.

–Karan

Exun^{We take Printouts}

blogs as RSS feed on Mozilla Firefox.

Exunclan blog page may be accessed as a Live Feed from the bookmarks toolbar of Mozilla Firefox. You may set it up by clicking on the “RSS” logo, which appears at the bottom right hand side of your Firefox window, when on the logexun page. Add the XML RSS feed to your Toolbar Bookmarks folder! Enjoy!

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ankit

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Photoshop (Jr.)       – 9:00-10:00am

List of participants:

Quiz

1. Karan Misra
2. Maanick Nangia
3. Bhavya Khanna
4. Shrey Khanna

C++ Programming

1. Prateek Rungta
2. Nisheeth Sharma

VB Programming

1. Abhisheyk Gaur
2. Maanick Nangia

BASIC Programming

Rungta, please post the names of the participants in the comments.

Flash Animation

1. Vansh Muttreja
2. Rijul Jain

Web Designing

(Manas Gautam & Varun Khetarpal will be going for Web Designing at DPS Mathura Road on the same day)

3D Graphics Designing (Photoshop/3ds max)

Slot is still open.

All events not mentioned here are Economics events and will not be decided here. All participants please note that this is the final list of participants (except the empty slots), so please be prepared on the 15th of October 2004.

–Karan

Welcome to Ln(exun) after the exams

The meetings which were to be held on 11th and 12th of october 2004 now stand cancelled

Thank you for your cooperation

PageRank is used by Google to decide the placement on Search Engine results page (however, the importance of PageRank, now, is being questioned by experts). PageRank was the system on which google was developed. It has been named after a co-founder of google, Larry Page.

PageRank worked on the theory that a link to a page was a “vote” for the page. The more “votes” it had, the higher it was placed in Google. Links to a page or inbound links were called “backlinks” by Google and for a large time determined PageRank.

Even the text within the hyperlink was taken into account to decide how relevant a page was to a certain topic.

PageRank ranks pages from 1 to 10, where 10 is the highest PR a page can get. Pages can also have PR 0. The PageRank of a page can be viewed with the Google toolbar.

The number of backlinks to a page can also be seeb by using the following format:

link:http://www.URL.com

But Google does not display an accurate number of backlinks. Yahoo is much more reliable, and will always show more backlinks. It is believed that Google showed only backlinks from pages of PR4 or more, but recently lower PR links have been seen.

Google also takes into account the number of links on the page being ranked.

Each link to a page “passes” on a part of it’s PR, and that’s how a page gets it’s PR. It is believed 85% of the PR of a page/No. of outbound links on the page passing the PR is passed on to the page. Even internal links are used in the total number of outbound links, so a lot of links are required to get a decent PR.

A PR5 is worth about 4-6 times more than a PR4 (it’s actually believed to be around 5.5 but Google doesn’t say)

These are only assumptions. Google doesn’t disclose any information but has released it’s original PageRank algorithm to the public. Google hasn’t given any information about it’s “proprietary algorithm”. Besides PR, Keyword Density also plays a role in SERPs. Search Engines are getting smarter by the minute, and now have come up with some very innovative ideas for SERPs. Even the size and location of a keyword matters. A keyword within the heading 1 element (h1) on the top of a page has a lot more value than a keyword in a sea of text. Due to such innovations, people have come to question the importance of PR, but it still does play an important role.

PR of some known pages:

www.google.com – 10

www.microsoft.com – 10

www.karanmisra.com – 4

gudiblog.blogspot.com – 3

www.exunclan.com – 3

www.exunclan.com/logexun – 2

The PR of a page can differ from the PR of the parent site, as can be seen above.

Ig Nobel Prize: Honors for Nude Lit, Fish Farts

There will be a meeting of All Class XII Exun Members on the 8th of October 2004 at 10.30am in the Web Research Center (eGurucool Lab). Plans for Exun 2004 will be finalized on that very day. Be there! Those who have acknowledged this entry, please post your names in the comments.

–Karan

Yer President

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• squirreling dervishes

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